The Mettle has been a labour of love for us here at Identiti. With almost 20 years of experience, multiple national 4x championship wins, and one BMX race world champion, we started a fresh project – code named the R01. We spent a long time studying a lot of graphs, but more time riding, racing and analysing our prototypes. 3 years of testing, refining and repeating all boils down to what we show you today. A product well worthy of carrying the Identiti name forward into the rowdiest trails you can find.

At Identiti, we all ride trail bikes whenever we can, shredding loamy turns, because that’s what puts smiles on our faces, so the development process was focused around what we want. A fast, capable and fun bike that’s rewarding to ride hard.

Why Metric Suspension? Another standard, yeah, we know. But seriously, we chose Metric because it adds characteristics to the bike that we just couldn’t achieve with historical shock sizing. With the new Metric shock sizing the Mettle is optimised around tomorrow’s standards, making it future-proof. Metric offers the smoothest and most supportive performing suspension we have ever felt, but also the most reliable. By using a 230 x 60mm shock platform, we can take advantage of more bushing overlap inside the shock, which really improves performance when pushing the bike hard. We’re so confident with how well the bike pedals that we haven’t ever felt the need to reach for that little blue compression adjuster to firm it up for climbs, and we think you’ll agree.

There’s 15% progression to the leverage curve, with the ability to add more volume spacers, so you get full support when diving deep into rock gardens. We also made sure that the frames Boost rear wheel spacing allowed us to increase bearing distances at the main pivot for increased stiffness when railing turns. A proven Horst link design allowed us to fine tune to the characteristics that we wanted providing plenty of support and anti-squat figures suited for optimal pedalling performance.

Simply put, we’ve taken advantage of new technologies to offer what is the best bike we have ever made. Built to take a hammering. Day in. Day out.

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Specifications

Fork

Rock Shox Yari RC 160mm Solo Air (Option MRP Ribbon 160mm + £600)

Rear Shock

Rock Shox Deluxe RT3

Headset

Gusset S2

Handlebar

Gusset Slade

Stem

Gusset Magnum 31.8 50mm

Grips

Gusset File Lock Black

Saddle

Gusset R-Series Black Jack

Seatpost

KS Lev Integra 150mm

Chain Guide

MRP 1x V3

Rear Derailleur

SRAM GX Eagle 12 speed

Gear Levers

SRAM GX Eagle 12 speed

Chain

SRAM GX Eagle 12 speed

Crankset

SRAM Descendant Alloy 175mm 34t

Cassette

SRAM GX Eagle 12 speed 10-50T

Bottom Bracket

SRAM GXP

Brakes

SRAM Level TL

Wheels

Halo Vapour 35 27.5 Boost

Tyres

Schwalbe Magic Mary/Nobby Nic

Geometry

Small

Medium

Large

Stack

600

600

610

Reach

440

462

485

Horizontal Top Tube (ETT)

601

622

648

Seat Tube (ST)

413

450

470

Chainstay (CS)

435

435

435

Bottom Bracket Height/Drop (BBH)

-7

-7

-7

Seat angle (SA)

75°

75°

75°

Headtube Angle (HA)

65°

65°

65°

Headtube (HT)

115

115

125

Wheelbase (WB)

1198

1219

1247

Front Centre (FC)

763

784

812

Shock Length

230

230

230

Maximum Seat Tube Insertion

215

250

270

Part numbers

Part No

Colour

Size

RRP

5IT7MTG1U

Purple

Sm

£3599.99

5IT7MTG1X

Grey

Sm

£3599.99

5IT7MTG2U

Purple

Md

£3599.99

5IT7MTG2X

Grey

Md

£3599.99

5IT7MTG3U

Purple

Large

£3599.99

5IT7MTG3X

Grey

Large

£3599.99

Reviews

Singletrack Identiti Mettle GX Eagle

Identiti has produced a bike that does exactly what it says on the tin – it’s a strong, properly designed, take-no-prisoners enduro bike.